We Love You, JT
Older & Wilder
GGW Media
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Saying Goodbye to JT and Finding Support in Grief
Joy and Claire discuss travel concerns about altitude sickness for an upcoming Peru trip and past experiences with motion sickness and sleep. The conversation shifts to Joy’s dog JT, who was 14, and the difficult decision to schedule in-home euthanasia after noticing declining mobility. Joy describes the hospice vet process, the peaceful passing, how their other dogs reacted, and choosing private cremation with plans to honor him in Westcliff. They discuss the intensity of pet grief, support from friends, work boundaries, pet loss groups, and the community’s messages and donations to Canine Companions in JT’s name.
03:57 Peru Altitude Worries
06:50 Seasickness and Dramamine
08:26 Sleep Then and Now
11:23 Dog Blanket Antics
12:37 Saying Goodbye to JT
13:33 Senior Dog Decline Signs
18:00 Calling Hospice Vet
21:54 Making the Hard Choice
24:58 Facing the Decline
26:00 No Judgment Decisions
28:47 Quality of Life Tools
32:53 Saying Goodbye at Home
35:25 Support and Work Boundaries
39:25 Why Pet Grief Hits Hard
40:55 Memorial Plans and Support Groups
43:41 Laughing Through the Pain
46:58 Community Thanks and Closing
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everybody to older and wilder with Joy and Claire. |
| 0:20.6 | Good morning. I don't know. It's so early. |
| 0:22.9 | You guys don't always listen to this. So we have some friends visiting. And so I was like, okay, |
| 0:28.5 | I need to record a little bit earlier because we're going to go on a hike. And then because |
| 0:33.7 | the universe is what it is last night for the first time in years, Evie was up puking all night. So we will not be going on a hike early this morning, but we had already scheduled the recording and I couldn't have texted joy at like 2 a.m. and be like, hey, can we make to eat? So here we are. You'll just have to go get donuts or something. And is exactly what I'll be doing. Correct. Yeah, I felt so bad. And she, my kids, just, you know, what's the word I'm looking for? What's the word that people use when, like, you're going to talk about something sensitive? Like, trigger's the word oh uh content alert trigger |
| 1:12.4 | warning yeah trigger warning trigger warning about puke my kids are not pukers like some kids are just |
| 1:18.4 | like pukeers like they get a little over simulated and just bleh and that's not my kids they don't |
| 1:21.7 | peek very often think like knock on wood it's so grateful and when they do, it's like a big deal. |
| 1:30.6 | And poor Evie last night, just when kids are puking and you're sitting with them, |
| 1:35.6 | it is like a very specific type of parenting experience or, you know, kid child raising experience. |
| 1:42.7 | And then you just feel so bad. |
| 1:45.3 | There's nothing you can do. There's nothing you can do. You want to just take away the pain and the fear and the like, you know that feeling too of like when it's starting to come back up and you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. So finally. You like feel their pain so hard. Yeah. Yes. And literally what happened was that she started, like, woke up feeling like she was about to throw up and made it out of bed but didn't make it out of her room. |
| 2:07.6 | And so just like bleat right in front of her door and then had to step through it to get into the bathroom and like slipped on it and fell in it. |
| 2:15.3 | No, like insult to injury to insult to injury to all of oh |
| 2:20.0 | it's so horrible so horrible so then by the time we like that's the part we like heard that part |
| 2:27.2 | but by the time we got to her she was like basically like laying in it and I oh it was so sad |
| 2:31.8 | anyway so like you really just can't recover from that. |
| 2:34.9 | Yes. |
| 2:35.5 | Oh. |
| 2:36.0 | So then she was just sitting, we, like, took her clothes off. And then so she was just sitting, like, naked on the bathroom floor just for, like, an hour and a half because she didn't want to put her clothes back on. Oh, I felt so bad. Anyway, so poor Eby. How is she doing this morning? Well, she's still asleep, but we gave her some Zophran. |
| 2:52.7 | And turns out you can some Zophran. |
| 3:09.1 | And turns out you can give Zophan. This is not medical advice to kids, like really young kids can like Zofran say for really young kids. And we have a ton of Zofran in the house because anytime we, it's one of those things that like, yes, it's prescription. but with Brandon being a surgical nurse, |
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